I have friends who worked in the prop dept for Bride Wars! Kate Hudson's couch and Anne Hathaway's chair lived in my friend's apartment in Boston for a few years.
That is really cool. How did you get involved and why did you want to donate?
I looked into it for the money (I was a broke ass college student), but by the time they called I had a job and didn't need the money quite as badly. However they'd already matched me with a family and I knew it was going to be an amazing gift for someone.
Post by Melissa W. on May 18, 2012 10:16:31 GMT -5
-My friend had a pig that was in Amistad. We got to meet Steven Speilberg, Mathew Maconneh (sp?) and Morgan Freeman. It was awesome although carrying a little big up a flight of stairs was not.
-I was robbed as a bank teller in 99. It was non violent but still scary as shit. It concluded the worst year of my life. The president of the bank offered to write me note to get out of finals as I was a college freshman.
Post by Chuppathingy on May 18, 2012 10:30:05 GMT -5
I survived loosing just over 6 liters of blood and being flat lined for 70 seconds. The experience had a definite impact on my perspective to say the least.
Post by Velvetshady on May 18, 2012 10:34:06 GMT -5
It's sad, but all the interesting things I can think of happened when I was a kid. I got to see and do a bunch of cool things as a diplo-brat growing up overseas. And got to meet a whole bunch of political leaders/presidents/royalty. But the two things I can think of that people have been interested in on here are that I wasn't allowed to ride the school bus in 2nd/3rd grade because the school decided I made the bus too much of a terrorist target and that we had one day where we traveled to 3 countries and narrowly missed 3 bombings, 1 per country.
Vegas, I think you have met two of my favorite celebrities! Are Meredith Vieira and Pat Sajak as nice and awesome as I imagine them to be?
Meredith Viera was awesome. Super down to earth. She spent lots of time with contestants chatting and gossiping. During the breaks for commercials she stays put in her chair and is very social with the audience. Pat Sajak said two words to us and the audience even though I was around him during both the auditions and the actual airing of our show. The minute the show goes to commercial break he leaves the stage and doesn't come back until two seconds until it goes back on air. I will say that he has an awesome sense of humor. Really sarcastic and dry. I overheard several of his conversations during auditions and could tell he'd be fun to hang out with. I'm sure he's probably just over it after doing the show for so long and wants to get in and out of each taping as soon as possible.
1) I was on the Ellen show for her Mother's Day special in 2009 (as part of the audience). I won the most amazing prizes, as did my cousin who was my guest. It was a fantastic day!
2) I have two 12" titanium rods, along with many screws and bolts in my back to correct scoliosis I have as a result of a deformed vertebrae I was born with.
3) Not about me necessarily but I think it's interesting enough to mention that my great grandma had 30 children. Her family was in time magazine in 1936 because of it.
I was on Oprah as a guest. Not quite as exciting as it sounds, as they cut my part for the actual show (which I was super grateful for), but it was awesome meeting her, being in the green room, getting hair and makeup done and having a front row seat for the whole taping. I also got some fun free gifts and a free stay at the Omni Hotel (plus a limo ride to the studio).
I was also a guest on Oprah. They warned me that parts might be edited out, but they used everything they shot (about 5 minutes of me). It was pretty exciting.
My aunt sent me these photos she took of her TV when I was on:
I was raised by bikers, so even though I am pretty tame by nature, I have a very wild side and lots of tattoos, including a half-sleeve! ;D And along those same lines, I used to sing in a punk rock band. I wasn't very good...
One branch of my family tree is currently ruling a small island nation about 90 miles away from Florida.
I've been drunk on national tv for a special interest piece for CNN Headline News; telling college kids that they can start drinking before the camera crew arrives is never ever a good idea. But in our defense they were featuring our college class on Beer and Spirits since it was one of the first courses offered in the US of its kind.
Are you willing to share the island nation? Or should we just assume you have an uncle Fidel and Raul?
This is the internet so I can say anything and nobody will ever know I'm lying.
That said, speaking of "6 months", I once spent 6 months in an in-patient eating-disorder facility. It was like a prison, and to my shock, there was this strong Christian/Baptist theme. Even back then, I was an atheist. I hated the mandatory church-going and "Let Jesus heal you!" crap. I no longer have an eating disorder, although I don't think the facility "cured" me. Those 6 months were absolutely surreal.
My house caught on fire and burnt down when I was ten. My mom took hot towels out of the dryer, put them in a wicker basket and left them while we went to work and school. They smoldered all day and ignited. We stayed in a hotel for four months while the house was rebuilt.
3) Not about me necessarily but I think it's interesting enough to mention that my great grandma had 30 children. Her family was in time magazine in 1936 because of it.
My grandfather was in Time magazine in the 40's--he's famous for tripping on a box and saying "Shit" ;D And, yes, lurking Nest Gods, Time mag printed the word "Shit".
This is hard and some of these are hard to follow.
I have had two brain surgeries and had to re-learn how to do a lot of things.
H and I have been married almost five years and except for our guestless destination wedding / honeymoon, have not been on a vacation that didn't revolve around a concert.
For whatever reason, I think surgeries are interesting. Care to elaborate about yours and how tough it was to relearn things?
My house caught on fire and burnt down when I was ten. My mom took hot towels out of the dryer, put them in a wicker basket and left them while we went to work and school. They smoldered all day and ignited. We stayed in a hotel for four months while the house was rebuilt.
Another reason to hate wicker. Was everyone okay (including pets)?
Huh...I lived in Turkmenistan for 7 months last year. And had a very interesting and unusual case of colon polyps at the age of 28. I had a roomfull of surgeons and oncologists discussing my case at Memorial Sloan Kettering for months.
Post by kangaroo11 on May 18, 2012 13:08:03 GMT -5
I was an extra in the movie Newsies, but I've never seen it. They spray-painted my hair brown because no child worker would have pristine blonde hair.
I mentioned this in the giant Intro thread, so for those of you who didn't read through it: I've written 5 novels for National Novel Writing Month. Four are fantasy and one is Sci-Fi.
My house caught on fire and burnt down when I was ten. My mom took hot towels out of the dryer, put them in a wicker basket and left them while we went to work and school. They smoldered all day and ignited. We stayed in a hotel for four months while the house was rebuilt.
Another reason to hate wicker. Was everyone okay (including pets)?
Everyone was either at work or school so we were Ok. Our fish did not make it, but the firemen found our dog underneath the bed. She had several surgeries and always had lung issues after that, but she survived.
And it is for this reason that I do not own a single piece of wicker in my house.
I did a bellyflop on my honeymoon and ended up in the hospital for three months. I caused trauma to my chest which caused me to avebtwo major lung surgeries.